Karen Hao

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But it's really important to understand that these are scientific hypotheses of specific individuals within the AI research community.

And there's a lot, a lot of debate about whether this is in fact the case.

And some of the biggest critics say it's very reductive to think of our brains as simply just statistical engines.

Yes and no.

So it matters because these companies...

They are driving their future actions based on this hypothesis.

So they have decided, we think that this hypothesis is true, like we should just continue building larger and larger statistical models in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence.

And that's then having global consequences.

In order to continue doing that, they're hoovering up more and more data.

They're building more and more data centers.

They are exploiting more and more labor in order to continue on this path.

Here's a question that I think is important to ask is,

Why are we trying to build AI systems that are duplicative of humans?

We're kind of having this conversation right now where we've just taken the premise of this industry as a good thing.

Like, they said that we should be building AGI, so we say that we should be building AGI.

But I would like to ask, like, why are we doing that?

Why is it that we are building a technology that is ultimately designed to replace and automate people away?

That is not the enterprise of technology.

Like, we should be building technology.